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NAEP Technical DocumentationBlock-Level Descriptive Statistics as Defined After Scaling, Grade 12 Reading National Assessment, by Block and School Type: 2015

Block-level descriptive statistics as defined after scaling, grade 12 reading national assessment, by block and school type: 2015
Statistic	Type of school¹	Block R1	Block R2	Block R3	Block R4	Block R5	Block R6	Block R7	Block R8	Block R9	Block R10	Block R11	Block R12	Block R13
Number of scaled items	†	10	10	10	10	9	10	11	10	9	10	11	11	11
Unweighted sample size	Public	2,200	2,200	2,100	2,200	2,200	2,200	2,200	2,200	2,200	2,200	2,200	2,300	2,200
Unweighted sample size	Nonpublic	200	200	300	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200	200
Weighted average item score²	Public	.71	.72	.71	.59	.56	.59	.63	.63	.57	.59	.56	.67	.56
Weighted average item score²	Nonpublic	.77	.79	.78	.70	.67	.68	.72	.71	.66	.72	.68	.74	.66
Weighted average polyserial	Public	.70	.71	.70	.68	.73	.65	.71	.75	.69	.67	.71	.72	.66
Weighted average polyserial	Nonpublic	.69	.70	.74	.77	.77	.71	.74	.85	.75	.70	.75	.76	.66
Weighted alpha reliability	Public	.73	.74	.70	.74	.74	.69	.76	.78	.75	.74	.80	.78	.72
Weighted alpha reliability	Nonpublic	.71	.66	.69	.79	.73	.72	.75	.82	.77	.70	.80	.76	.67
Weighted proportion of students attempting last item ³	Public	.90	.94	.99	.84	.96	.98	.97	.87	.94	.92	.98	.96	.88
Weighted proportion of students attempting last item ³	Nonpublic	.94	.98	.99	.92	.96	.99	.98	.93	.97	.96	.96	.97	.97
† Not applicable. ¹ Nonpublic school sample includes only private schools, including Catholic schools. BIE and DoDEA schools are not included in either the public or nonpublic category. ² The "Weighted average item score" of polytomous items is standardized to have a scale of 0 to 1 so they are comparable to dichotomously scored items. ³ The "Weighted proportion of students attempting last item" is equal to 1 – (Percent not responding to last item / 100). NOTE: Item statistics in this table are described on the page Blocks of Items. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2015 Reading Assessment.

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